Nurses' Experiences of their Ethical Responsibilities during Coronavirus Outbreaks: A Scoping Review.

Globally, nurses have experienced changes to the moral conditions of their work during coronavirus outbreaks. To identify the challenges and sources of support in nurses' efforts to meet their ethical responsibilities during SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 outbreaks a scoping review design was chosen. A search was conducted for eligible studies in Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase and Embase Classic, EBSCO CINAHL Plus, OVID APA PsycInfo, ProQuest ASSIA, and ProQuest Sociological Abstracts on August 19, 2020 and November 9, 2020.

Nurses' experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced rapid and widespread change to standards of patient care and nursing practice, inevitably leading to unprecedented shifts in the moral conditions of nursing work. Less is known about how these challenges have affected nurses' capacity to meet their ethical responsibilities and what has helped to sustain their efforts to continue to care.

Research Objectives: 1) To explore nurses' experiences of striving to fulfill their ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2) to explore what has fostered nurses' capacity to fulfill these responsibilities.

Cumulative Deficits Frailty Index Predicts Outcomes for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates.

Unlabelled: Despite comprehensive multidisciplinary candidacy assessments to determine appropriateness for solid organ transplantation, limitations persist in identifying candidates at risk of adverse outcomes. Frailty measures may help inform candidacy evaluation. Our main objective was to create a solid organ transplant frailty index (FI), using the cumulative deficits model, from data routinely collected during candidacy assessments.

Referral Practices of Cardiologists to Specialist Palliative Care in Canada.

Background: Patients with heart failure have palliative care needs that can be effectively addressed by specialist palliative care (SPC). Despite this, SPC utilization by this patient population is low, suggesting barriers to SPC referral. We sought to determine the referral practices of cardiologists to SPC.

The relational dynamics of caregivers of patients with a left ventricular assist device for destination-therapy: A qualitative investigation.

Background: Caregivers are critical to the recovery and management of patients with destination-therapy left ventricular assist devices (DT-LVADs).

Objective: To explore the needs and impacts of caregiving for patients with DT-LVAD relative to the various relationships caregivers navigate from the shared perspectives of patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers.

Methods: Qualitative descriptive secondary analysis.